of poor performance and decline. That recovery is the consequence of improved efficiency in production resulting from …

the productivity, efficiency change and technical change indices. The model included three inputs (labor, land and … agricultural subsidies may create disincentives for farmers to improve their productivity and efficiency. A higher nonfarm income …

maximization behavior for aggregation. Individual state estimates of changes in efficiency, technology, and productivity from 1987 … increase in efficiency was only 0.1 percent. Technological change averaged 3.5 percent over the five year period, or about 0 … was tested by regressing the percent change in efficiency on the percent change in farm numbers. The results were …

is that environmental performance is based on the definition of the eco-efficiency as the ratio of economic value added … representing changes due to technological progress (or regress) and due to changes in relative eco-efficiency. The dynamic … progress mostly explain overall environmental performance growth, while relative eco-efficiency changes have been minor for …